we pay you to look beyond. i m going deep. one of the interesting things here is among those who are paying close attention to the race. so i think there s a lot of people who say joe biden is ahead only because of name recognition. here s what s interesting. look at this. among those who are paying a lot of attention to the race right now, joe biden actually gets his best number at 42% versus those who are paying little to no taeng to t attention to the race, he gets 23%. here s the person who really suffering among those who are paying a lot of attention. it s bernie sanders. among those paying a lot of attention to the race, he s only at 8%, versus those who are paying little to no attention, he s up to 28%. so if there s one candidate who s benefitting from name i.d., it s actually probably bernie sanders. look at this. what i put here was the first choice, who people are selecting in the primary preference ballot and can form an opinion. joe biden and bernie sanders basicall
in places where he overperformed in 2016, knowing that s his path to victory in 2020. it s not like he s going to expand the map. he s more likely to hold the states he won in 2016. i ll tell you, though, you know, president trump clearly is eager to go after democratic candidates. you mentioned the fact that he has mentioned that fox news is doing town halls with democratic conte contend skpe contenders and that is annoying the president. all of these contenders are excited about the fact that president trump is attacking them. it does wonders for name id, and if that helps them build themselves up in the democratic primary, that is something that benefits them. if the president is punching at you, that gives you some credibility. many of these strategists behind these candidates are doing cart wheels every time the president mentions their name on twitter
seemingly picked up the steam that he has as a live candidate. i think he has done that. he is struggling with african-american voters. do you think it is around a set of policies? do you think it is around name id or do you think it is around what you just described? i think it is all of the above. i think a lot of it is name id, they don t know him, they don t have experiences with him. but i would be lying if i didn t say there was some in parts of this country, in the black community that are still homophobic, which is why i wanted to take the position i did, and i think everyone should. you have to remember when president obama came out with same sex marriage there was a lot of push back. in 2003 when i was getting ready to run and said i was for same sex marriage, i had ministers that i grew up preaching who said, you can t come to my church for a while until this cools off. so let s not be in any way dishonest about this. we have in every community to have to deal with it, a
african-american voter, do you think it s around a set of policies, name id or what you just described as i think it s all of the above. a lot of it is name id, they don t know him, have experiences with him. but i d be lying if i said there are some in parts of the black community that are still homophobic, which why i wanted to take the position i did. and everyone should. you have to remember when president obama came out with same-sex marriage there was a lot of pushback. in 2003 when i said i was getting ready to run and was for same-sex marriage i had ministers saying to me, you can t come to my church until this cools off. let s not be dishonest, we have to in every community deal with it and deal with it we must. and mayor pete is doing that. you cannot win the democratic nomination without support from
can persist for a full year. what do you think? a couple things. he does have something, right? name i.d. name i.d. counts for a lot especially at this stage. it s not just name idea, because bernie and those guys, they tried to attack him early on on all of his problems of touching women inappropriately. didn t put a dent in his poll numbers. biden s numbers with women have gone up since he has entered the race. the other thing that he maybe has is that electability questions. democrats, their main concern as you heard the woman say to biden, she can t take another six years of trump. it s actually only going to be four, if you know how those things work. that i see your point. she is counting today. the president is not going to be impeached before the election. with biden, for example of the gallup poll today shows his